stamp
pronunciation
How to pronounce stamp in British English:
UK [stæmp]
How to pronounce stamp in American English:
US [stæmp]
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- Noun:
- a token that postal fees have been paid
- the distinctive form in which a thing is made
- a type or class
- a symbol that is the result of printing
- machine consisting of a heavy bar that moves vertically for pounding or crushing ores
- a block or die used to imprint a mark or design
- a device incised to make an impression; used to secure a closing or to authenticate documents
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- Verb:
- walk heavily
- to mark, or produce an imprint in or on something
- reveal clearly as having a certain character
- affix a stamp to
- treat or classify according to a mental stereotype
- destroy or extinguish as if by stamping with the foot
- form or cut out with a mold, form, or die
- crush or grind with a heavy instrument
- raise in a relief
Word Origin
- stamp
- stamp: [12] Stamp originally meant ‘crush into small pieces, pound’. The sense ‘slam the foot down’ did not emerge until the 14th century, and ‘imprint with a design by pressure’ (which forms the semantic basis of postage stamp [19]) is as recent as the 16th century. The word comes, probably via an unrecorded Old English *stampian, from prehistoric Germanic *stampōjan (source also of German stampfen, Dutch stampen, Swedish stampa, and Danish stampe).This was derived from the noun *stampaz ‘pestle’, which was formed from the base *stamp- (a non-nasalized version of which, *stap-, lies behind English step). The Germanic verb was borrowed into Vulgar Latin as *stampīre, whose past participle has given English, via Mexican Spanish, stampede [19].=> stampede, step
- stamp (v.)
- Old English stempan "to pound in a mortar," from Proto-Germanic *stamp- (cognates: Old Norse stappa, Danish stampe, Middle Dutch stampen, Old High German stampfon, German stampfen "to stamp with the foot, beat, pound," German Stampfe "pestle"), from nasalized form of PIE root *stebh- "to support, place firmly on" (cognates: Greek stembein "to trample, misuse;" see staff (n.)). The vowel altered in Middle English, perhaps by influence of Scandinavian forms. Sense of "strike the foot forcibly downwards" is from mid-14c. The meaning "impress or mark (something) with a die" is first recorded 1550s. Italian stampa "stamp, impression," Spanish estampar "to stamp, print," French étamper (13c., Old French estamper) "to stamp, impress" are Germanic loan-words. Related: Stamped; stamping. To stamp out originally was "extinguish a fire by stamping on it;" attested from 1851 in the figurative sense. Stamping ground "one's particular territory" (1821) is from the notion of animals. A stamped addressed envelope (1873) was one you enclosed in a letter to speed or elicit a reply.
- stamp (n.)
- mid-15c., "instrument for crushing, stamping tool," from stamp (v.). Especially "instrument for making impressions" (1570s). Meaning "downward thrust or blow with the foot, act of stamping" is from 1580s. Sense of "official mark or imprint" (to certify that duty has been paid on what has been printed or written) dates from 1540s; transferred 1837 to designed, pre-printed adhesive labels issued by governments to serve the same purpose as impressed stamps. German Stempel "rubber stamp, brand, postmark" represents a diminutive form. Stamp-collecting is from 1862 (compare philately).
Example
- 1. Stamp duty bump to cool hong kong housing ?
- 2. In 1766 , parliament repealed the stamp act .
- 3. A special stamp act congress was held in new york to plan a rebellion .
- 4. Since april , it announced cooling measures including a rise in stamp duty and accelerated land sales .
- 5. Many point to the uk stamp duty on share transactions as proof that tobin taxes are feasible .